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Mitchell Warren on Foreign Aid Freeze & PrEP
Mitchell Warren on Foreign Aid Freeze & PrEP
AVAC's Mitchell Warren shares at the ANRS conference how the 2025 US foreign aid freeze disrupted global HIV prevention efforts just as long-acting PrEP innovations were gaining momentum. “The most...
Planting Seeds in These Times: Stories of Resistance and Possibility for the HIV Movement
Planting Seeds in These Times: Stories of Resistance and Possibility for the HIV Movement
This interactive webinar invited HIV prevention advocates and movement workers to explore how storytelling can be a tool for resistance and possibility, especially now. Drawing on the Storytelling ...
Inside the Decisions that Changed Global Health: A Conversation w/ Nicholas Enrich & Rosemary Mburu
Inside the Decisions that Changed Global Health: A Conversation w/ Nicholas Enrich & Rosemary Mburu
WACI Health's Rosemary Mburu spoke with AVAC's Mitchell Warren and Nicholas Enrich, Author of Inside the Woodchipper sharing the less-tracked impacts of the foreign aid freeze and decimation of USAID.
Launching STI Advocacy Hubs: National Agendas from Kenya, South Africa & Zimbabwe
Launching STI Advocacy Hubs: National Agendas from Kenya, South Africa & Zimbabwe
AVAC and partners launched the STI Advocacy Hubs and introduced new country-led advocacy agendas from Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In this webinar, Teodora Wi, former Team Lead for Sexually T...
PrEP is a Program, Not a Product
PrEP is a Program, Not a Product
Speaking at April's ANRS Emerging Infectious Diseases Scientific Conference, AVAC Executive Director Mitchell Warren made the case that HIV prevention progress depends on more than the products the...
STIs in South Africa
STIs in South Africa
In South Africa, access to credible STI information, strengthened advocacy capacity across communities, healthcare providers and policymakers, and a rights-based approach to sexual health is essent...
STIs in Zimbabwe
STIs in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, #STIs remain a significant and under-recognized public health challenge, which impact sexual and reproductive health, increase HIV risk and add strain to the health system, which is al...
STIs in Kenya
STIs in Kenya
In Kenya, #STIs remain a major public health challenge, affecting both key populations and the general population, increasing #HIV risk and contributing to poor sexual and reproductive health outco...
AIDS Watch 2026
AIDS Watch 2026
AVAC’s John Meade speaks at the #AIDSWatch2026 plenary on the power of #advocacy at local, national and global levels. Highlighting how advocacy drives broader policy change, he underscores the urg...
Dapivirine Ring: Giving Women Hope and Choice in HIV Prevention
Dapivirine Ring: Giving Women Hope and Choice in HIV Prevention
This Choice Agenda webinar highlighted ongoing market access activities to ensure women have access to the monthly DVR; key learnings from community and government engagement activities; the perspe...
One Year Later: AVAC vs United States Department of State
One Year Later: AVAC vs United States Department of State
On the first day of the new administration, a sweeping foreign aid freeze shut down life-saving HIV and global health programs overnight. Over 52 weeks, AVAC documented the harm, and took the fight...
The Future of HIV Prevention: A People’s Research Agenda for Speed, Scale and Equity
The Future of HIV Prevention: A People’s Research Agenda for Speed, Scale and Equity
First developed in 2024 in partnership with global advocates and communities, the People’s Research Agenda sets out a people-centered framework for equitable and accelerated R&D and product introd
We Declare—Turning "The People's Declaration" Demands into Actions and Accountability on HIV
We Declare—Turning "The People's Declaration" Demands into Actions and Accountability on HIV
The People's Declaration—currently with over 500 signatories, charts out a number of community priorities and demands. The Choice Agenda, The Legacy Project, and a fabulous global panel discussed m...
Do Not Check That Box
Do Not Check That Box
Impacts From the Assault on Transgender Communities and DEI + Strategies to Sustain and Rebuild Our panelists had an unflinchingly honest—and interactive—conversation assessing the impacts of the ...
Beyond Borders: Reclaiming voices in global STI & HIV prevention
Beyond Borders: Reclaiming voices in global STI & HIV prevention
ISSTDR, IUSTI, the STI & HIV 2025 World Congress, and AVAC hosted a special webinar spotlighting speakers who were not able to join the congress due to financial and political barriers. Presenters